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Uniform Title Piano (Motion picture : 1993)
Title The piano / CIBY 2000 presents ; a Jan Chapman production ; a film by Jane Campion ; producer, Jan Chapman ; written and directed by Jane Campion.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult New Fiction DVD  BLU-RAY PIANO    Check Shelf
Edition Director-approved blu-ray special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm).
Playing Time 020100
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
stamping rdapm
polychrome rdacc
color
Description digital rdatr
optical rdarm
surround rdacpc
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
sound rdasco
wide screen rdaar
video file rdaft
Blu-ray
1080p high definition
region A rdare
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The Criterion collection ; 1110
Criterion collection ; 1110.
System Details Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.85:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player.
Note Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH).
Title and credits from screen.
Cast Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, Cliff Curtis.
Credits Director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh ; editor, Veronika Jenet ; music, Michael Nyman.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Audience MPAA rating: R; for moments of extremely graphic sexuality.
Summary With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her ineffectual husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. With its sensuously moody cinematography, dramatic coastal landscapes, and a sweeping score, this uniquely timeless evocation of a woman's inner awakening is an intoxicating sensory experience that burns with the twin fires of music and erotic passion.
Note Special features: commentary soundtrack recorded in 2006 by Jane Campion and Jan Chapman; new conversation between Campion and film critic Amy Taubin; The piano: 25 years on (2018 converstion with Jane Campion and Jan Chapman); Michael Nyman (2005 interview with the film composer); new interviews with Dryburgh and production designer Andrew McAlpine; interview with actor Holly Hunter on working with Campion; The piano at 25, a program featuring a conversation between Campion and producer Jan Chapman; excerpts from an interview with costume designer Janet Patterson; Waihoroi Shortland (2021 interview with the film's advisor); Water diary, a 2006 short film by Campion; trailer.
Language English and Maori dialogue with English subtitles.
Subject Mute persons -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Mothers and daughters -- New Zealand -- Drama.
Pianists -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
Mute persons. (OCoLC)fst01031157
Pianists. (OCoLC)fst01063351
New Zealand. (OCoLC)fst01204542
Genre/Form Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Campion, Jane, 1954- screenwriter, film director.
Chapman, Jan, film producer.
Hunter, Holly, 1958- actor.
Keitel, Harvey, actor.
Neill, Sam, actor.
Paquin, Anna, actor.
Walker, Kerry, 1948- actor.
Curtis, Cliff, 1968- actor.
CIBY 2000 (Firm), presenter.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
ISBN 9781681439082
1681439085
Standard No. 715515267717
Music No. CC3326BD The Criterion Collection
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